talli bhArati nutini ponda 1-mAtra short
sonta lAbham tapana tappa -same-
If you try to hum it along the same lines as "dESamunu prEmincumannA",
you would notice that if you change the last two words to,
talli bhArati nutini pondaga
& sonta lAbham tapana kAnee
it would "hum" better.
At the risk of repetition, the structure is ABAB in three lines, and ABG
in the fourth line, where A is any three-mAtra group (UI, III, IU), and
B is any four-mAtra group (UU, UII, IIU, IIII), and G is just U.
Note that ja-gaNa, IUI, even though it also has four mAtras, wouldn't
fit well in this rhythm. For example, try the lines,
sonta lAbham konta mAnuku
sonta panulanu konta mAnuku
sonta illE kaTTukunduku
sonta moguDE vanTa cEstE
anta jilEbi tanu tinEstE
In the above lines, the second gaNa is UII (change lAbham to lAbhamu), IIII,
UU, IIU, and IUI. See how the "gati" fails there in that last line
with ja-gaNa in place of B.
The defence rests!
Ramakrishna
PS: Now that you are firmly ensconced at Kodak, I will give you a
question for which you can leisurely attempt to find an answer, if possible.
Kodak makes "Wratten" filters, transparent sheets of gel-coated plastic
sheets, in various colors. These are specified by some standard numbers,
such as (I will give this info later). The question is, is it valid to ask
for the R-G-B (or H-S-I) specification of the filter? (Assuming a 0-255
scale for each parameter).